I watched an insect drown today. I don’t know what to call it. It was a black ant with wings - flying ant? Its wings were stuck in some leftover sauce on a plate in the kitchen sink. I watched it struggle for a bit and decided I should end its misery. I turned on the faucet and the plate filled with water. The ant’s legs were flailing all around, and then it was just the top two, reaching straight out as if it was trying to lift itself. Or perhap reaching out for me to pull it out. I didn’t.
And after twenty seconds or so it stopped moving.
I didn’t feel great about it but what’s done was done. I left and came back about 5 minutes later. Lo and behold, the winged ant was gone. It was under a spoon and to my surprise, alive! The water had diluted the sauce enough to free the wings. It must have known this and played dead to get me to stop watching. The trickster! I didn’t try to kill it a second time. Hope it’ll find its way out the house or at least out of my sight.
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